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“To a Poet” by First Aid Kit
. . . And so I ask where are you now Just when I needed you I won’t ask again Because I know there’s nothing we can do Not now, darling, you know it’s true “To a Poet” by First Aid Kit
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“I loved you head over handles…
“I loved you head over handles like my first bicycle accident— before the mouthful of gravel and blood, I swore we were flying.” – Sierra DeMulder
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“Mouthful of Forevers” by Clementine von Radics
I am not the first person you loved. You are not the first person I looked at with a mouthful of forevers. We have both known loss like the sharp edges of a knife. We have both lived with lips more...
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“If You Forget Me” by Pablo Neruda
I want you to know one thing. You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if I touch near the fire the impalpable ash or the wrinkled body of...
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“I Am Offering this Poem” by Jimmy Santiago Baca
I am offering this poem to you, since I have nothing else to give. Keep it like a warm coat when winter comes to cover you, or like a pair of thick socks the cold cannot bite through,...
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“What Cowboys Know About Love” by Louis McKee
Last night on the sports channel I watched the rodeo. Those cowboys have it right; the best and the beauty of it. You cannot win, so you ride for as long as you can and enjoy it. When you dismount,...
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“Forms of Love” by Kim Addonizio
I love you but I’m married. I love you but I wish you had more hair. I love you more. I love you more like a friend. I love your friends more than you. I love how when we go into a mall and classical...
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“[i carry your heart with me(i carry it in]” by E.E. Cummings
i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear;and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)...
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“Love Poem Medley” by Rudy Francisco
Love Poem Medley by Rudy Francisco I want you to bite my lip until I can no longer speak And then suck my ex girlfriend’s name out of my mouth just to make sure she never comes up in our...
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“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea… (Strayed)
“It is not so incomprehensible as you pretend, sweet pea. Love is the feeling we have for those we care deeply about and hold in high regard. It can be light as the hug we give a friend or heavy as the...
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“A Pretty Song” by Mary Oliver
From the complications of loving you I think there is no end or return. No answer, no coming out of it. Which is the only way to love, isn’t it? This isn’t a play ground, this is earth, our heaven, for...
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“Ode to Joy”
“Ode to Joy” performed by Vallès Symphony Orchestra, the Lieder, Amics de l’Òpera and Coral Belles Arts choirs *** “Hundreds of butterflies flitted in and out of sight like short-lived punctuation...
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“An Almost Made Up Poem” by Charles Bukowski
I see you drinking at a fountain with tiny blue hands, no, your hands are not tiny they are small, and the fountain is in France where you wrote me that last letter and I answered and never heard from...
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“If I Were a Dog” by Richard Shelton
I would trot down this road sniffing on one side and then the other peeing a little here and there wherever I felt the urge having a good time what the hell saving some because it’s a long road but...
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“i thank You God for most this amazing” by E.E. Cummings
i thank You God for most this amazing day: for the leaping greenly spirits of trees and a blue true dream of sky; and for everything which is natural which is infinite which is yes (i who have died am...
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“When I Heard at the Close of the Day” by Walt Whitman
When I heard at the close of the day how my name had been receiv’d with plaudits in the capitol, still it was not a happy night for me that follow’d, And else when I carous’d, or when my plans were...
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“There are so few people given us to love… (Enright)
“There are so few people given us to love. I want to tell my daughters this, that each time you fall in love it is important, even at nineteen. Especially at nineteen. And if you can, at nineteen,...
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“Things I Want To Ask Your Boyfriend” by Nishat Ahmed
1. Are her lips like the hot chocolate your mother made During the winter months when you were seven? Or have you not tasted her well enough to find the fine granules of cocoa that lightly come with...
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“Everything” by Marc Anthony
You. The crazy diamonded one, whose glitter is richer than gold. You, who makes me ponder and pant and scream the daylights out of a deep blue sky and who allows me to cry unabashedly so, at a full...
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“three questions” by Caitlyn Siehl
My mother tells me that when I meet someone I like, I have to ask them three questions: 1. what are you afraid of? 2. do you like dogs? 3. what do you do when it rains? of those three, she says the...
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